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TYPE SETTING APPARATUS. No. 539,946. Patent-ed May 28, 1895.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS KOSSUTH JOHNSON, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO THE ALDEN TYPE MACHINE COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TYPE-SETTING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 539,946, dated May 28,1895.

Application filed September 14, 1894- Serial No. 522,982 (No model-b ToaZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, Louis KOSSUTH J oHusoN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type-Setting Apparatus, of which the following is a specification sufficient to enable others skilled in the art to which the invention appertains to make and use the same.

My improvements relate to the class of type setting apparatus in which the types are arranged in prescribed positions with relation to each other in type containing channels from the lower ends of which they are successively forwarded into position to be grasped by the fingers for removal to the stick. Heretofore these channels have been arranged in groups representing short words, &c., the letters for which are forwarded simultaneously into position for removal. In accomplishing this it is essential that the types rest on the type platform on their edges so that they may be brought together in proper relation for insertion in the stick. This has been effected by arranging the types on their edges, one upon the other, in their respective channels; but this method is inconvenient and wasteful since special care has to be exercised in distributing the types into the channels which latter hold comparatively few types and need replenishing frequently. I

The object of the present invention is the use of thetypes in the channels on their flat or broad sides, and this I accomplish by providing for the turning of the types on the type platform by quarter turn grooves or guides through which the types are forwarded by a pusher, as heretofore, which leaves them, in position for removal, resting side by side upon their edges.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is atop view of my improved device, showing the type-containing channels in horizontal section and the pusher at the end of its forward stroke. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section the grooves just prior to their entering the twists. Fig. 5 is a similar view with the pusher retracted. Fig. 6 is a central vertical section showing the type-forwarder advanced; Fig. 7, a front view of the device. Fig. 8 isa vertical section on plane of line 8 8, Fig. 3. Fig.9 is acentral vertical section showing the parts in the position indicated in Fig. 3. Fig. 10 is a front view of the device, the types having been removed from the presentationport; Fig. 11, a vertical section upon plane of line 11 11, Fig. 5, looking toward the rear-of the channel-holder and showing the pushergrooves. Fig. 12 is acentral vertical section with the typeforwarder retracted; Fig. 13, a transverse vertical section on plane of line 13 13, Fig. 5. Fig. 14 is a transverse section upon plane of line 14: 14., Fig. 12.

The type containing channels O, are supported in a common holder H, as heretofore.

The types .T, rest upon the platform A, which however in the present case is formed with grooves G, the rear ends of which coincide with the lower ends of the type containing channels 0, into which-the types have been distributed upon their flat or broad sides. The types are forwarded along the platform A, and so as to protrude through the port a; by a comparatively thin pusher blade P, which is reciprocated in any suitable manner. This pusher P, runs in the grooves s, 5, formed in the side walls S, S. All but the lowest types in the type containing channels are retained within thelatter by the front plate F, which extends down to the top of the grooves, s, s, as do also the sides and rear walls of the channels O, the shoulder 0, being so gaged in position to efiect this resultwhen they rest against the top of the holder H. The rear wall of the holder H, is formed with a sloth, through which the pusher blade P, plays.

The forward ends of the type grooves G, G, are formed with quarter twists Q, O, which raise the type on edge as they pass under the forward stroke of the pusher blade P. In

other words the floors of the grooves G, at the twists Q, gradually assume a vertical position, while the side walls converge to slightly more than the thickness of the types being manipulated. It will be seen that the front edge of the pusher blade (Fig. 12) will encounter the rear ends or feet of the types at the upper side thereof, and the depth of the grooves is such that the front edge of the pusher maintains contact with the types while they are in the twists Q, and until they protrude through the port a, at the end of the forward stroke.

The platform A, is formed with the converging side walls a, a, which lead up to the port a, for the purpose of assembling the types as heretofore.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a type case, the combination of a type containing channelsupported independently, a type forwarder and a type supporting platform formed with a type groove having a quarter turn twist for turning the type from its fiat side to its edge as it is forwarded by the pusher, substantially in the manner and for the purpose described.

2. In a type case, the combination of a plurality of type containing channels, supported independent of the types contained therein, a type platform formed with a plurality of type grooves each having a quarter turn twist for turning the type from its flat side to its edge, and a type forwarder common to all the types for pushing the types through the said grooves substantially in the manner and for the purpose described.

I 3. In a type case, the combination of a plurality of type containing channels supported independent of the types contained therein, a type platform formed with a plurality of type grooves each having a quarter turn twist for turning the type from its flat side to its edge, a type forwarder common to all the types for pushing the types through the said grooves and forwarding them into position for removal, and converging side walls at the front of the platform for assembling the types under the act-ion of the pusher substantially in the manner and for the purpose described.

7 LOUIS KOSSUTH JOHNSON. Witnesses:

D. W. GARDNER, GEORGE WILLIAM MIATT. 

